Reviews

TRICIA ANN EAVES OLD TRAILS, NEW BEGINNINGS No Label No Number Tricia Ann Eaves may be a new name to some, but she’s been playing mandolin and guitar since the early 1970s when she was a member of New Mexico’s popular Big River Band. She later had her own band, and now felt it was…

DANNY BURNS NORTH COUNTRY Bonfire Recordings BRC5008 Danny Burns may be a new face to many, but this Irish native has spent twenty years as a traveling folksinger on both sides of the Atlantic, honing his skills as a musician and songwriter. This is his debut project and he’s joined by some impressive talent, including…

JOHN GILMORE GRAVITY’S CURSE No Label No Number Simple. Clean. Honest. Direct. Some marketing or PR hack would try to call it authentic or blue-collar. It’s more than that. It’s the primal acoustic music of John Gilmore, a stalwart of the central Indiana bluegrass music scene. Gathering twelve of his best original vocal and instrumental…

LEFTOVER SALMON SOMETHING HIGHER Los Records No Number Leftover Salmon celebrates three decades in the music business this year with the release of the group’s biography, Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years Of Festivalby Tim Newby.  To support the book, the band is traveling on its “Stories From The Living Room” tour. That follows the band’s latest tour for the…

PHIL SALAZAR & THE KIN FOLK PROJECT 1, PART 3 Filzar Records FZ0014 The thing here is the fiddling—it will steal your ears from hearing the other instruments, but the other instruments sound mighty fine, too. This is not hardcore bluegrass, but it’s a fun look at the greater realm of acoustic music. Yes, there…

THE OLD-TIME SNAKE MILKERS AND HOOT AND HOLLER MILKERS AND HOLLERS No Label No Number How can you possibly resist two bands, happily united for this album, with names like those? This delightful collaborative CD grew from a chance musical meeting. Hoot And Holler is the Asheville, N.C.-based duo of Amy Alvey (fiddle) and Mark…